Re: WWW-Authenticate problem in Apache

Hi, I've never tried requiring authentication via a header (only through httpd.conf or .htaccess), but here's my best guess: You're telling it what type of authentication to do, and you're telling it what realm to authenticate to, but: - You're not telling it what to require, and you're not telling it where to find that info. For example, with the httpd.conf format, you would have something like: <Directory "/var/www/htdocs/foo">

	    AuthType Basic
	    AuthName "My Realm"
	    AuthUserFile /var/www/auth/htpasswd
	    require valid-user

</Directory> Any reason you're not using .htaccess? /bsh/ dssopt wrote:

Hi everybody, I try to install Apache 3.1.2 + PHP-4.1.2 on RedHat 7.2. All seems to be fine but when I write a PHP to test the authenticate. <?php

    header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"My Realm\"");

?> Whatever I input to the login box, the failed, retry message comes out and it becomes a dead loop - login - retry - login .. Can anyone help me ?? Ken

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